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Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphoto

Interesting collages of high resolution photos, juxtaposed imagery of famous locations with flash controls to zoom and pan.

Link: http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/ 

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Category: Link of the day
Created: 06 April 2011

The Medium is the Message

To borrow the phrase from Marshall McLuhan.

And with that as our theme, a variety of links to artists who exploit this (however inadvertently) in their art.

Mohammad Ali out of Punching Bags: http://www.realizeali.com/, note their site is flash handicapped, so to view better images of their project go to wired.com.

Matt Cusick using old maps: http://www.mattcusick.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=100

Jinks Kunst made a portrait of Serge Gainsbourg out of old cigarette butts: http://www.jinkskunst.com/land-art-et-recycling/ & http://webecoist.com/2011/03/27/butting-in-portrait-made-of-over-20k-used-cigarette-butts/

Wander Martich - Makes a penny out of pennies (I like the inherent recursion here..): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitsorf/5016306135/ & http://www.odditycentral.com/tag/pennies

Andrew Myers creates portraits out of screws: http://www.andrewmyersart.com/#/home 

Marcus Levine creates portraits and figures out of nails: http://www.levine-art.co.uk/public/gallery_nails/

And there are a variety of artists are making things out of junk & garbage - Vik Muniz: http://www.vikmuniz.net/, Tom Deininger: http://www.tomdeiningerart.com/selfportait1.html & (previously Linked) Zac Freeman: http://www.zacfreemanart.com/ & Jason Mecier creates portraits of celebrities out of their own garbage (or close enough): http://www.jasonmecier.com/junk06/jdrawer.html & http://www.jasonmecier.com/junk06/jkitchen.html 

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Category: Link of the day
Created: 04 April 2011

Impossible Bottles

Image: Titanic in BottleSo I've acquired this liquor bottle of perfect shape and I've a dim idea of putting something inside it, and I go onto the net searching for some inspiration.

Now I'm thinking of a brain, perhaps, with blinking neural synapses, or maybe a beating human (ish) heart, or a tentacled octopus. It's the perfect bottle. But I need some tips on getting it into the bottle, and so I'm searching online. Now there are plenty of impossible bottles, but most seem to take the height of the craft to be a deck of cards or pack of cigarettes placed inside, which is (dare I say) a little bit boring....

But I'll share my inspiration here:

Links: Wikipedia on Impossible Bottles, Impossibottles, Some rather dodgy looking Nigerian on YouTube trying to sell the secret of getting lots of twigs inside a bottle, (Probably an "honest living" if you're from Nigeria and on the computer....), Folk Art in Bottles, John Rausch, and the Humble Jeff Scanian. No, really, look at his photo - what was he like as a child bringing home art projects from school?

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Category: Link of the day
Created: 01 April 2011

Fractal Lab - Interactive WebGL

Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.

Link: A cool site that allows you to generate & render 2D & 3D fractals in your browser. - Fractal.IO

Note:  In the event your browser doesn't support WebGL (doesn't render the fractals properly), check out this site for advice on how to enable it in your browser, or do a Google Search for more precise instructions.

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Category: Link of the day
Created: 31 March 2011
  1. 360 Panoramas of Cities & Other Destinations
  2. Ptak Science Books
  3. Chatroulette Love Song
  4. Photos from the Australian Justice & Police Museum

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